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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Hanging out at Squatters brewpub for the first time in 14 years. Beer's still good.

Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Hi @maryanningsrevenge.bsky.social just popping back on Bsky to tell you my daughter adores your book and called it the "touch bones" book (she's 2.75 years old). Amazing book and a must have for the nature and dinosaur kids.

A photo of the fossil keepers treasure a book by Amy Atwater

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I think I need someone on Etsy to start making these immediately.

A yard sign that says "In this house we believe... Susan Collins Sucks."

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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

President Kamacho wouldn't even have done this.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

You know there are two things that are gonna happen when it happens. Unless it's a very, very obvious or on-camera moment - His followers will have a new Elvis that "isn't really dead" OR His followers will use his death to solidify that some kind of leftist conspiracy killed him.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Wait, is the reason that everything you buy at the grocery store now has "added protein!" because we couldn't sell any of our soybeans so it all got sold into protein powder food derivatives?

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I'm beginning to adopt a protocol with toys that is channeling @altonbrown.bsky.social's hatred for "unitaskers" - if it only does one specific thing, I don't want it.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I want to believe this, but what part of this is the AI-summary cannibalization that's affecting ALL websites?

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I know Utah has its share of issues but my goodness the land is gorgeous.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

If it were written today, We didn't Start the Fire would definitely include Trouble in the Hormuz.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Remember pop up videos? Maybe we can overlay actual facts on top of whenever Trump speaks? With that same noise?

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

There's a hidden illiteracy problem in the United States. And it isn't just kids without access to education, it's the greater adult population. People guess at what things say instead of actually reading. It's terrifying.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'll never get over the fact that this administration appointed the least qualified people imaginable and no one could stop them.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

::clears throat:: If your assessment of Maine's political landscape is "well, they voted for LePage, so..." Go look up what % of Maine voted for him. I'll wait. Or, better yet ... Accept that it's all more complex than can fit in a tweet

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Today while I was in the bathroom, my daughter was playing with my husband, then pushes open the door to get to me. Hubs says, "let's come out, mama needs some privacy" and she stops, looks at me with big concern and says, "mama you need privacy?" 🥹

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I need to make a yard flag that starts with "In this house we believe..." And then just says Susan Collins Sucks

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Would society really be fucked if we had a 4 day workweek? I feel like we should be able to do this without anything falling apart

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

IMHO all Maine democrats need to do is align their messaging on Platner as the following: Collins - elite, out of touch, ineffective, old Platner - working dude, mainer, real, new "like you" You don't even have to do issues or swing a big blue flag, I promise.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ok who wants to fund a journalism site called "The Follow Up" where a bunch of reporters just call after stupid stories break and get the actual story by actually asking questions?

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ok, so, this is how cynical I've become. I just read a news story based on a tweet: thehill.com/blogs/in-the... in which no one, NO one, talked to anyone at the Hilton to confirm the story re: "freeze-drying" lobster and giving it to a local shelter.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The fact that we haven't universally been calling him "Fucker" Carlson disappoints me.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Oh, in addition to all the WWII Nazi stuff, we're going full WWI also. #1918flu

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Do you ever wonder what the total volume or average number of emails and text sent per day just for 2-factor authentication is? It must be staggering.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If anyone's confused about what's going on in the strait of Hormuz, I highly recommend a YouTuber that has the channel name. "What's going on with shipping?" The man is a treasure and it puts things into context. Source: YouTube share.google/2KQjC9bqJOVF...

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What's Going on With Shipping?

What's Going on With Shipping focuses on Maritime Industry Policy, and current events in the Maritime Sector, along with Maritime History. The channel features videos that examine the world's mercha...

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't let Canva and AI design calendars, y'all. It is really bad at conveying info in a way humans need to see it.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Removed the brewery name here, but this has to be one of the worst ways to display information on a calendar I've seen... they have multiple locations but let's see what's going on each day... Not location???

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Ok here's your primer on ME-2: Jared Golden announced in 2025 that he's not seeing re-election. The Democratic primary is June 9, and then the general election is November 3rd. BOTH of these elections will use ranked-choice voting, FYI.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Hahahaaa just realized Mamdani is gonna be sending a tax bill to Trump because he doesn't live there, he lives in Mar-A-Lago / the white house hahahaha

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Anyone freaking out about new taxes for the rich needs to look up how much we USED to tax the rich. We didn't make this up, folks, they just weaseled their way out of it over the last 20-30 years.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Toddler T-shirts shouldn't cost $25.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Everyone can chill with the calls for Mainers to "do something" about Golden. He's not seeking reelection.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

There's a group of people that I just seriously don't understand and can't empathize with: those who are never curious about anything. How can you not be curious about life? What's around you? History? Nature? Culture? What a sad life to never want to know anything.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The note on the bottom of this chart is delightful but I'm still mad that people haven't gotten the Brontosaurus memo.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I know there are people abroad saying, "IDK why Americans can't overthrow their government when the citizens have that many guns" but let's talk about that for a sec. Putting aside the fact that the gun-nuts are usually MAGA.... How do you expect this to play out?

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Asking this for real: Why do trucks at construction sites literally back up all the time? Completely understand the need for a warning noise. Compeltely perplexed as to why we seem to go backwards more than forwards.

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Heard any of the "youthes" say "six-seven" lately? No? See? Language memes are things that happen and come and go. It's OK.

media.tenor.com

a man in a judge 's robe says " did you say " youts "

Alt: a man in a judge 's robe says " did you say " youts "

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The glut of fake and AI-generated science and nature photos I keep seeing is depressing. There's so much ACTUAL awesome science and nature photography out there we don't need to fake it! Follow museums and nature centers and research institutions and they will show you some REAL rad shit!!

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

But we are the ones with paid actors 🙄

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

"It’s not the rate of price change that’s bothering people. It’s the level. When you fill the grocery cart…you’re paying today’s sticker—not today’s sticker minus last year’s.…people don’t forget the original price shock just because the rate of change stopped rising."

gelliottmorris.com

It's the prices, stupid

Consumer sentiment is at an all-time low because prices are at an all-time high. The UMich index isn't broken, popular government data just offer an incomplete picture of what people care about

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Carla Jean @beerbabe.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I've reached the point in my life where I get pains in my joints when the weather changes. I am 43. This seems unfair.

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